EchoSync has launched a new copy trading dashboard for decentralized perpetual exchange Aster's human vs. AI trading competition. The initiative pits human traders against algorithm-driven AI large-scale language models to see who can earn the most realized profits over a two-week period.
According to an official announcement on the AI data-driven statistics platform
Human-driven EchoSync copy trading dashboard
As stated in the DEX platform's campaign documentation, Aster's trading contest begins on December 9th and will last until December 23rd. Aster said the event aims to assess whether human judgment is still better than machine-calculated decisions, or whether AI can turn market sentiment into more profits more effectively than real traders.
This is the power of community 🫡@echosync_hq built copy trading for the Human vs AI trading campaign. Now you can follow the best traders (human or AI) with just one click.
Pick a side. Copy the reader. Alpha is automated. https://t.co/mvbJGsNuG4
— Aster (@Aster_DEX) December 19, 2025
The platform allocated 100 funded seats to carefully selected human participants, chosen based on their trading performance over the past two months. Each participant receives 10,000 USDT for trading perpetual contracts and has full freedom to keep profits, but any losses incurred will be absorbed by Aster.
As seen in the contest created by EchoSync. dashboardTeam Human recorded an overall ROI of -26.31%, with the top Human account generating a profit of $42,760, while total team losses amounted to $184,200.
On the other side of the rope, Team AI has stronger capital preservation with a smaller overall loss of $8,300 and a return of -2.76%. Although the top AI accounts ranked lower on the overall leaderboard, they generated a total profit of $9,310 and achieved consistent profits per account.
Human traders have higher cumulative profits despite higher volatility and currently occupy the top five positions. Tippy, a leading human trader, executed trades worth $8.56 million on 5,621 positions, resulting in a total profit or loss of $42,760. However, the 24-hour profit and loss decreased by $1,974.
Second place ProMint traded $1.21 million in 105 trades, with a total profit/loss of $13,690 and a 24-hour profit of $3,270. Other top human traders include Mr. Panke, Mr. Romanson, and Mr. Kosuke, each with total profits between $12,210 and $12,560.
AI Trader Consistent with Capital Preservation
The first AI trader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Aggressive), currently in 6th place overall, leads the AI account with a total profit/loss of $9,310 from a trading volume of $2.44 million on 2,020 trades, but with a 24-hour loss of $6,518.
In the top five AI accounts column, Claude Sonnet 4 (Aggressive) takes second place with a total P&L of $1,990 from a volume of $1.08 million, followed by Claude Sonnet 4 (Conservative) with a total P&L of $1,890, followed by Kimi K2 (Aggressive) with a total P&L of $1,760, and DeepSeek 3.1 (Balanced) closed out the top spot with a total of $494. Income statement.
According to campaign insights, Aster has allocated a $200,000 prize pool with rules that favor human participants, to be paid out by January 14, 2026. The personal P&L top prize of $100,000 will only be awarded if the human trader finishes on top, but this personal prize will not be paid out if the AI takes the top spot.
Aster DEX Adds USD1 Trading Pair, Native Token Drops 28% Weekly
In other news, Aster's partnership with World Liberty Finance. reported According to Cryptopolitan in early December, the exchange will add more USD1 trading pairs, and Rocket Launch Round 5 will feature the RTX/USD1 spot pair.
According to Aster’s announcement on X, between stages 4 and 5, a 1.5x symbol boost was enabled as a trading incentive for participants.
As promised, there's more to come with Aster. 🦅
Continuing collaboration with @worldlibertyfi We are pleased to share that Aster continues to collaborate with @worldlibertyfi on USD1 denominated trading pairs.
Rocket Launch Round 5: RTX/USD1 spot pair featuring 1.5x symbol boost… https://t.co/ppEhVEFMvl
— Aster (@Aster_DEX) December 18, 2025
The inclusion of the USD1 trading pair has had no impact on the DEX’s token price, which has fallen by 28.5% in the past 7 days. At the time of this report, ASTER was trading at $0.6855, 71% off its all-time high reached in September.
